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The Effects of Marine Benthos on Physical Properties of Sediments

A Successional Perspective

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Animal-Sediment Relations

Part of the book series: Topics in Geobiology ((TGBI,volume 100))

Abstract

The effects of benthic organisms on the physical properties of granular substrata are well documented. The range of effects has been presented in H. B. Moore (1931, 1939), Schwartz (1932), Dapples (1942), D. G. Moore and Scruton (1957), McMaster (1967), Rhoads (1974), Rowe (1974), Powell (1974), Richards and Park (1976), Myers (1977a,b), Self and Jumars (1978), Lee and Swartz (1980), and Carney (1981). These papers relate the effects of benthic species to changes in grain size, sorting, fabric, water content, compaction, shear strength, and bottom stability. Those autecologic parameters that appear to be most highly correlated with physical modifications of sediments include: method of feeding, feeding selectivity, feeding level relative to the sediment—water interface, degree of mobility, organism size and population density, burrowing depth, and, if the organism is a tube dweller, the density, spacing, and length of tubes.

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